Having spent the last week and a half putting jigsaws together, the BLOpens Rainbow set was a nice change in activity, especially with the glorious weather outside! Keeping children occupied almost 10 weeks into lockdown is taking some serious ingenuity, but this set is great for allowing children to let their creative streak roam free and create masterpieces!
Read on to find out how you can win a BLOpens Rainbow set!
Colouring is fun, but being able to create pictures with 3 colours at once for an airbrushed effect is even more fun! The BLOpens rainbow set features 6 reusable stencils, 6 mini BLOpens, 6 paper sheets and a 3 in 1 BLOpens sprayer.
Getting started is super easy, the hard part is choosing which template from unicorn, seahorse, mermaid, peacock, dragonfly and parrot to use first. That and the range of colours!
Liv chose to create a very blue inspired unicorn for her first attempt at using the BLOpens Rainbow set. We chose to use A4 sheets as opposed to the smaller sheets included and as you can see (picture below) a little spray does reach past the template edge. With this is mind, it’s probably best to cover the worktop area, furniture and carpets in the area you will be using the set. Whilst you can use the set indoors with careful preparation, it’s probably safer to use outside!
Any stains on skin or clothing can be removed with soap. The mouthpiece can easily be washed if more than one child (or adult) will be having a try!
This set is great to pull out time and time again, with the cardboard templates and pens easy to store in the box. Currently priced at £10.99 from Amazon, this fabulous set from John Adams is just one of a fabulous range of BLOpens sets. Having never tried them before, this made for a brilliant lockdown activity that is easy to set up and create fabulous artwork with. If you would like to win your very own set, make sure you enter the latest giveaway below…
How To Win A BLOpens Rainbow Set
For your chance to win a BLOpens Rainbow set worth £10.99, simply enter using the Gleam form below and do not forget to answer the question by leaving a blog comment!
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Giveaway ends at midnight on Sunday 28th June 2020.
One winning entry we drawn at random by Gleam.
The winner will be notified within 72 hours of the giveaway ending.
The winner will receive 1 x BLOPENS Rainbow Set
The prize is non-refundable and no cash alternative will be offered.
I have been doing so much more arts and crafts during lockdown!
Lots of gardening and making jewellery!
We have been planting flowers, trying our hand at photography and doing lots of baking!
lots of baking and arts and crafts
We’ve made rainbows for our house and the houses of relatives that we haven’t been able to see.
We have been making a garden den today with bamboo and sticks collected on our walk and making sock bunnies!
Lots of craft and baking x
Lots of arts and crafts baking.
Painting and collage making – we Love these
Lots of gluing and sticking, painting, drawing , colouring and baking!
These look great! My kids would really
Love to have a go to make cards for friends and grandparents x
Lots of nature trails and playing in the garden, fortunately been lucky with the weather.
We have been doing arts and crafts, painting, colouring, baking.
We’ve been doing lots of painting, colouring, Easter crafts and baking
Weve been recycling all sorts and making lots of different things with them!
Weve had fun baking and playing with play doh and kinetic sand too!!!
Baking, crochet and diamond art
We have been painting in the garden on a nearly daily basis.
plenty gardening and walking
We have done lots of painting and drawing
I have done some gardening, planted a few tomato seeds. We have baked bread and dreated a new bird table!
I have been doing lots of cooking which is something I didn’t do much of before.
Lots of water colour painting, we made a flower press and have made a bee from a tin can.
This week we’ve been finishing our space poster and painting rocks for the local rock snake in our park.
We made a 3D volcano.
We’ve been enjoying card making / paper crafting.
Plenty of walks and bike rides
Making things from beachcombing findings – driftwood, shells and sea glass.
Baking, sewing and homeschooling
We’ve been doing a lot of drawing and baking x
We’ve been doing lots of crafts and baking during lock down,my daughter even made a 5* bug hotel!
Baking & Puzzles!
Painting, baking, gardening
crafty things, painting, and jigsaw
We have been doing gardening, painting, and baking
We’ve been doing lots of puzzles and quizes.
We have been spending a lot of family time in the garden, which we’re so lucky to have.
My little boy and I have been baking, drawing pictures for family members, and gardening!
we have been building lego, crafting and baking
We have been designing t-shirts
Lots of painting
Being doing quite a bit of baking.
We have been doing lots of baking and paper crafts as well as drawing and painting.
We have been painting and baking
My children and I have bean making dolls out of empty bottles, elmer elephants out of milk cartons, growing flowers in pots, baking biscuits and cakes, made bird feeders out of toilet rolls and peanut butter and bird seeds, painting little treasure boxes, home-schooling actitivy roll play and learning.
I have bean doing cross stitch and colouring in Disney name pictures for my children.
We’ve been doing alot of baking and playing alot of board games!
I’ve been doing Paint by Numbers!
My kids have been Making paper puppets
Have been making our own personal cards, gardening and craft kits
baking and lots of colouring patterns and pictures
Stone painting
Lots of gardening, baking and crafting
Baking a little Drawing and Painting
Me and my 4 year old have been playing a lot with playdoh, mainly him making me food and watching me whilst I pretend to eat it 😀 Also been filling in colouring books, drawing with chalk and water art.
we’ve been painting rocks and hiding them for other children to find
Lots of painting!
We’ve been doing all sorts; planting, baking, crafting, drawing, painting, we’ve even attempted some sewing (although I should’ve remembered how many times that a needle would need to be threaded!!!!
Painting, drawing, collages, STEM games and gardening.
I have kept myself very busy with gardening and sewing!
Lots of gardening and planting and baking.
we have een so adventurous and made a metal mannequin and a latch hook rug!
Drawing and painting pictures.
I’ve been drawing, creating handmade cards and earrings.
mine have been doing art projects, the school has a family learning course and this has set projects such as pictures out of pasta, making trees, some colourful sand made in jars, they are really good
We have been doing lots of junk modelling, my daughter wont let me put anything out for the recycling men, we have to make models out of all of it haha.
Me and my daughter have been making masks for the vulnerable people on the street.
We’ve done a time capsule. Easter cards, Rainbow posters
We’ve been doing lots of painting
Lots of baking and having a go at painting
I’ve been drawing dnd characters
Baking and painting in the garden
we have been doing wood carving
baking, painting and gardening xx
We made a big flower picture using cut up egg boxes to make the trumpet part of the daffodil, wasn’t monet worthy but put in a nice afternoon with my little girl daphne
painting, drawing, baking, building things with my daughter and gardening 🙂
We’ve been writing little puppet shows and performing them, YouTube drawing tutorials and we’ve been painting rocks.
I have been refurbishing a chair. I sanded to remove all the old varnish, removed the old cushions and covers. Have now put on new foam and covered with lining fabric. I still need to make the outer covers for the seat and back.
Teaching my daughter crochet.
We’ve been cycling, gardening and fortniting
We’ve been writing book reports and creating our own stories, myself as well as the kids, which I think is amazing for them, they’re seeing things from another point of view and making their minds into imaginative tools. We’ve also been creating a front cover for each of our collections – the kids are loving using glitter and pens and paint to make their own individual pictures that reflect their tales, which are amazing!
Plenty of baking and cooking new things for the first time
Stone art, sun catchers, sand art , card making and rainbow crafts xx
Me and my son have made elephant families out of bottle cartons and painted them
Gardening, baking and I taught myself to crochet
We’ve built a toy hotel out of cardboard boxes
We’ve been drawing, making castles and bug hotels
I’ve not had chance to craft with the grandchildren, but have been challenging myself to dig out some of my oldest crafting stash and rediscover old techniques.
I normally attend an art class but have been unable to do so during lockdown so I have been painting at home
We have been collecting leafs, then putting a sheet of paper on top of them, then getting crayons and rubbing these to make leaf prints
Some colouring in, cooking, etc. Know some who have been busy with allotment, chicken coop, acquiring chicken for fresh eggs. Seems like they are aiming to sustain a good life.
Baking, gardening, crafts
We have done quite a few different craft activities we did egg blowing and then painting for Easter, we have drawn on the windows with our new glass pens
Spending as much time as I can doing things with my little boy, gardening, cooking, playing and making the most of the qualiy time.
lots of cookery lessons and they`ve both created there own little vegetable patches in the garden
just writing my blog
We’ve been teaching/learning virtual painting – handy for them to know, but nowhere near the same as actually drawing and painting something for real!
cooking, crafts and games
We’ve have been doing lots of arts and crafts and baking.
We have been painting cups, doing hama beads, making paper planes and baking cupcakes
I’ve done a hook rug kit and doing a Christmas cross stitch
Weve been painting rainbows, crafting little spiders and baking some cupcakes
I have been cross stitching and knitting a lot more, this year everyone in my family will get woolly socks for Christmas I think 😉
I also sewed some face masks for us.
Baking and gardening
Nothing too creative as I’ve been very busy de-cluttering and cleaning so when I eventually get to see my grandchildren again I can forget housework and spend all my time playing with them!
Baking and painting
Diamond Painting
mosaic art, hama beads, plenty of painting, paper mache – my daughter loves doing something crafty and creative every day!
The lockdown has made no change for us as not furlonged. Always try to fit some creativity in thou
My children are older so we don’t do anything together anymore & my grandchildren haven’t been able to visit, so the only crafty thing I’ve been doing is my cross-stitch.
As a family we have made all our own greeting cards
We’ve been recycling our tin cans and making wind chimes, we’ve also done lots of lovely crafts.
We have doing many arts and gardening activities.
Card making
Baking and Gardening x
Lots of painting!
Baking and drawing. Lots of fun.
Baking, gardening, painting, sewing and drawing. We enjoy crafts so much.
We have been making cards, making salt dough & baking
we’ve been baking, gardening, and of course making rainbows for the windows to support the NHS
colouring, drawing and craft kits (making our own soap, tie dye kits etc)
We’ve had a project every week and have tried to incorporate creativity into it at the end of the week. Last week it was theatre puppets from papier mache
Having. Clear out and baking
We have been doing lots of baking.
We have done a lot of baking, painting, growing things in the garden and building on Minecraft x
sewing, painting and drawing
Painting, gardening, but hunts, reading and cross stitch.
Writing short stories
we have been making a squirrel dining table
We have been doing crafts and baking.
A colour nature trail in our local woods
Painting, knitting and board games.
Using leaves and natural materials to make pictures
Mastering sourdough and listening to audiobooks
We have been junk modelling and painting.
We have been sewing and completing lego as well as some painting.
We made a washing machine out of an old box for the kids to play with
Lots of baking
painting windows,air dry clay models,painting drawing ect
Lots of painting, sewing, drawing and many crafts with the kids.
We’ve done lots of crafting and making, baking and gardening – including growing flowers and herbs!
My daughter and I have been doing a lot of rock painting and den building.
Painting rocks, finger painting, printing with vegetables and lots more!
My four year old has a short attention span so I have ended up making papier mache heads and Elmer the Elephants from milk cartons whilst he has ran about the garden like a man possessed.
We have had an art lesson, made butter and cakes! Well done Liv, love what you have done there! x
Lots of painting, Lego, Play Mais, Kids K’nex, Play Doh, colouring and photography
cooking, baking, arts and crafts and gardening!
Ive been doing sewing and cross stitch
Lots of baking
My daughter has been collecting all the recycling around the house and making models out of them
We have been doing arts and crafts, making things from the recycling and lots of baking
Lots and lots of baking
lots of baking, drawing, reading
Hello, I have been drawing cards to send to people, which has been enjoyable.
Baking with the kids, arts, paper maché, making cards
Making greetings cards
baking
lots of baking
Lots of art and crafts – painting, junk modelling, baking, aquabeads, sketching, art with natural materials…lots!
very busy, we have been making bird feeders, stick animals , bug cans ..baking paint ohh the list goes on! x
Painting by nimbers, so therapeutic
crossstich, I have a few kits to get through.
Lots of card-making and some drawing.
We have been painting, drawing, knitting and sewing
My kids and I have been doing painting and colouring during the lockdown
Gardening and jigsaws have kept me busy
we have been making salt-dough models to support our themes (Egyptians and Romans), baking and lots of painting
We have been painting shells and doing aqua beads.
We have been baking and making our our birthday cards for friends and family.
we have been painting and clay modelling
We’ve been painting, making models and completing Diamond Art pictures!
Doodling mostly x great giveaway
It would be gardening and growing food to eat for the family.
Lots of fab drawing tutorials online, some cross stitch and too much junk modelling! 🙂
Gardening and baking (including discovering aquafaba – just wow!)
Loads of different things, painting, gardening, baking. I have 3 children so it’s been a challenge to keep them entertained!
We’ve been doing some card-making and tried a little painting with water colours.
I have been making crochet toys
Ooo lots! Baking, learning the guitar, sketching, exploring digital art and just general fun mess making!
Lots of baking and garden, and painting
Lots of arts and crafts and lots of playing games
Baking cakes, drawing, gardening…
We’ve been doing a lot of drawing and planting seeds.
My children have been following YouTube learn to draw tutorials for all their favourite characters
Lots of baking
Mindful colouring- very relaxing!
gardening, baking and arts and crafts
Baking, Crochet and just started painted Christmas baubles
Crafts, puzzles, baking and playing in the garden 🙂
Lots of baking!
We’ve been baking and doing some clay modelling
we’ve been doing card making, colouring and baking
we’ve been drawing and painting.
Painting Rocks and hiding them
Made a collage
Lots of drawing, painting, play-doh, cutting and glitter.
I and my family been doing lots of baking and creative arts, painting, drawing and playing board games as well as some gardening.
Lots of handpainting and water play in the garden
Lots of crafting and messy play
Bubble painting and making moon sand with my little ones age 2, 4 and nearly 6. ❤️
Lots of gardening and baking
Playing in the garden, videos and colouring
We have been busy baking and making crafts we did a bug hotel for the garden and spread lots of wildflower seed too
been making masks for a nursing home as well as friends and neighbours – I am all masked out now
We’ve had the craft box out loads! From collages to bubble painting and even some paper maiche!
we have been baking and drawing
Lots of drawing and baking – so hard to try and keep my girls occupied x
Lots of arts and crafts projects and lots of baking.
Making wool pom pom rainbows
A lot of crafts and tie dye t shirts
Gardening and growing plants from cuttings.
cooking gardening and crafts
We’ve been painting lots of rocks and pebbles!
baking, handprints and lots of playdoh
Baking, colouring and playing the keyboard
Lots of colouring and drawing, gardening and making cakes
Painting stones, making rainbows and baking trying new recipes some working and some not but it’s all been good fun
looks great
Drawing and gardening
We have been making origami models baking cakes and growing sunflowers
I’ve been doing lots of sewing and crochet, plus baking with the kids.
Sewing and paper crafting
Our daughter has been doing lots of drawing in a book that she uses specially for this. We have also been doing zoom singing sessions and the kids have had amateur dramatic rehearsals.